Porota

Less is more, My firm is located in Querétaro, an important city in México.

Architect and interior designer based on the psychology of the environment.

Architect, graduated in Rome at La Sapienza, with A. Terranova and R. Secchi. Master in Architecture at IN/ARCH and Master Degree in Advanced Architecture at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia of the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya with the direction of Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller and Marta Malé-Alemany.

currently
Professor at University Federico II NAPOLI for Computational Design.

Director o f Design and Research in Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory of Città della Scienza Napoi.

Professor and CEO  at MEDAARCH, Mediterranean Academy of Architecture;
Responsible Mediterranean FabLab
He has taught in several school Visiting Athens and Madrid.
Scientific director and professor of the summer school in digital fabrication and parame- tric design "Digitalmed" InarchCampania.
Director of INFOGRAM, Agency of infovisualizzazione.
Teaching assistant at the Second University of Napoli for the application of parametric design into the process of urban generation.
Self-employed in the office of Architecture and Engineering "picernocerasolab" of which he is CEO with Ing. Gianpiero Picerno Ceraso. Associated with the office wins in Italy and abroad several architecture competitions . His works are rewarded as innovative projects in the international arena up to be submitted for the SMART CITY WORLD CONGRESS EXPO 2012.

Expert in digital fabrication and computational design, holds numerous lectures to universities in Italy and abroad.
Expert in architecture communications and technology for rapid prototyping.
CEO of www.aramplus.com webzine since 2004 providing articles and making videos that explore the making of contemporary architecture.

Patents for "Communicative architectural facades." He has exhibited at the Biennale of Architecture of Seville. His works have been selected for Beyond Media - Vision. He was Professor of Interior Design Urban edited by the Campania Region. Playwright, television and radio, has written for national TV (Rai Tre, Italia 1). Awarded at the Giffoni Film Festival as a writer for the miles innovative TV format in 2005. Awarded for Project Workshop Slowloop project WinP_07 Lions and the city of Salerno. His works are included as a "case history" in the course "Innovative Marketing" at Bocconi, MIlan.

Based in Madrid, Edgar Gonzalez leads the Bachelor in Design program at IE School of Architecture and Design. He founded EGD Edgar Gonzalez Design, a Strategic Design Agency, where he serves clients as a strategic consultant specialised in applying design processes to complex problems and narratives. As, Editor-in-chief of edgargonzalez.com since 2002, one of the main reference websites about architecture and design in the Spanish speaking world, he is tuned in to news and trends in architecture and design throughout the world.
 
Especially interested in themes at the threshold of the architectural practice, he researches the relationships between new technologies and media for creative processes and contemporary cities.  He has served as guest professor and speaker in several universities and has been the curator and designer of several exhibitions and cultural projects. From 2000 to 2002 he worked as an architect at Zaha Hadid Architects in London and at Arquitectura Torres Nadal from 2002 to 2005. He also served as an editorial designer for the  Architectural Association London, The Economist and The Guardian.
 
Holds a Bachelor in Architecture ( ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1996) and a M.A. in Complex Architecture  (Alicante University, Alicante, Spain, 2007).
 

VGR Architects, mixed used architecture, interiors , residential, commercial architecture 

Give priority to the protection of nature and human comfort in all of my designs
Use local materials and integrate projects into their environment